The Battered Woman and Shelters: The Social Construction of Wife Abuse

The Battered Woman and Shelters: The Social Construction of Wife Abuse
ISBN-10
1438411294
ISBN-13
9781438411293
Category
Social Science
Pages
228
Language
English
Published
1992-02-06
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Author
Donileen R. Loseke

Description

Arguing that we commonly understand "wife abuse" and the "battered woman" in terms of standardized images of problems and people, the author explores how these images inform and shape social services for women who have been assaulted. Using ethnographic data of shelter work from the perspective of workers, she shows how these standardized images affect organizational structure and how front-line workers make sense of their interventions into clients' lives.

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